Now I'm confused, since we have 3 of us in this conversation. Should I be removing the code from my site that Gramps colored in Red/Green?

Thanks for any confusion.

So am I because I re-checked your site on my Windows XP machine on which I have IE8 and your site loads fine on it. This Windows XP hasn't got the Apache server but I don't see what has it got to do with loading a page because I am not loading it from htdocs folder - which is a requirement for local php to kick in.

Which browser are you using or can you elaborate on what exactly is the problem.

Ok I removed the code below that Gramps suggested and it is now working good in IE (I currently have IE-9). Although, I did download IE-Tester which allows you to test in different IE versions and it does not seen to work there?

Now for my next problem, and if I can get this working I should be in fairly good shape. I had made some formatting changes (centered the menu bar, and made some color changes) See below, however those are now not working..

Any ideas on that anyone? thanks much for any help...

In SpryMenuBarVertical.css, change the value of line 16 to auto as in

ul.MenuBarVertical

{

margin: auto;

padding: 0;

list-style-type: none;

font-size: 100%;

cursor: default;

width: 8em;

}

2-can I color up the text at all on a Spry menu like this? I tried but it didn't seem to take.

In the same CSS file, starting at line 81, change the highlighted values

/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */

ul.MenuBarVertical a

{

display: block;

cursor: pointer;

background-color: #EEE;

padding: 0.5em 0.75em;

color: #333;

text-decoration: none;

}

/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */

ul.MenuBarVertical a:hover, ul.MenuBarVertical a:focus

{

background-color: #33C;

color: #FFF;

}

/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */

Although, I did download IE-Tester which allows you to test in different IE versions and it does not seen to work there?

IE-tester shows that you have got a problem 0n line #102. Unfortunately, the tester cannot be relied upon reflecting the correct line number. There is a problem on line #27 where there is no space in front of "type="

Now for my next problem, and if I can get this working I should be in fairly good shape. I had made some formatting changes (centered the menu bar, and made some color changes) See below, however those are now not working..

Normally, when a question has been answered, it is marked as correct and any new questions are asked in a new post.

However, you caught me in a good mood, just signed contracts for three new projects one as far away as Switserland.

Please open the online site in FF. Right click the page and choose 'View Page Source'. This will pop-up a new window with the source code. Go to lines 27 and 28. If you have the latest version of FF, you will see that both these lines are coloured red, which means that there is something wrong with these lines. You will also notice that you place the space between the file extension and the quotation marks. The space should be between the quotation marks and the following attribute type and rel respectively.

Then click on line 28. This will give you the styling as the browser sees it. You will notice that the changes have not been made.

Ok can you check the 2 lines for me? Its been a little confusing for me trying to figure out where you want me to put those spaces, sorry:(. Also I blew away my online old files and just uploaded all the latest.

Here is what I have in Dreamweaver right now for the formatting that I did. The thing is, when you first had me change the alignment, and then the coloring, it worked! and I have not changed it since...

Any other ideas or thoughts? All folders are being uploaded, I did it several times..

/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, a fixed width box with no margin or padding */

Gramps!! that did it. Thank you for helping me get that right. I noticed on IE that after you click on one of the flyouts that it shifts the Menu a little to the right, but I know that IE has a tendancy to do strange things...yes?

Also, I know we talked about widening the menu a little. I don't want to mess it up at all now LOL but where was it that I can widen it at in the css correct?

I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean that there is no space between the attributes on line 30? please clarify..does that mean I do need a space? or do not need a space? and where exactly? sorry about that. I am still learning.

Also in your example of where you right clicked, you are right clicking on the PS-2 product that I have...which belongs to my .php shopping cart? so I do not see the html tag if I click on the main page of my site.? also do you mean that the html tag should or should not be there? Again sorry.

I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean that there is no space between the attributes on line 30? please clarify..does that mean I do need a space? or do not need a space? and where exactly? sorry about that. I am still learning.

Now we will insert spaces in our answer and in the right places. See the difference it makes when reading? I know that browsers can translate more of what we write than we give them credit for, but we must get used to sticking to the correct format and that is to separate the attributes with a space. The above becomes

Also in your example of where you right clicked, you are right clicking on the PS-2 product that I have...which belongs to my .php shopping cart? so I do not see the html tag if I click on the main page of my site.? also do you mean that the html tag should or should not be there? Again sorry.

Oh, sorry, I just noticed that in your other post you have declared this topic as being dead. I guess I am wasting my time.

Last night (in Ozland), I sat back watching the Olympics road race and how Bradley Wiggins, the favourite, used the wrong tactics and finished up losing the race. At the time I was munching away on a potato crisp called Thins because they are not as thick as some.

My post here on Adobe is quite serious in nature and my website is down right right now. And is my wifes, and mine major income. I would truly appreciate if anyone else if needed, could step in please and give me a helping hand here on my last issue on IE as I am not understanding nor seeing

what I need to do.

Sorry, I'm just a no non-sense person, not looking to please, or not please nor insult anyone here.

Still not sure what you are conveying to me. I removed the HTML tag from my index, and child pages. And I am still not sure what you mean "added spaces for previously names attributes".

Sorry, I don't even know what an 'attribute' is. I mentioned seveal times that I am stil learning. Kinda like saying to a beggining Drummer, please make sure your using Regal Tip 5-A's for jazz drumming and are you using Remo clear heads on the bottom of your snare drum? or, did u use mufflers on your drums? what kind did u use? )))

Still not sure what you are conveying to me. I removed the HTML tag from my index, and child pages.

The index, or Home page never did show the <html>-tag. The online version still shows the <html> tag on all of the child pages.

And I am still not sure what you mean "added spaces for previously names attributes".

Sorry, I don't even know what an 'attribute' is. I mentioned seveal times that I am stil learning. Kinda like saying to a beggining Drummer, please make sure your using Regal Tip 5-A's for jazz drumming and are you using Remo clear heads on the bottom of your snare drum? or, did u use mufflers on your drums? what kind did u use? )))

I know your feeling. When my GP explains the reason for an ache on the right side of my chest, I don't know what he is saying; too many medical terms for me to worry about. But then I am not about to become a medical practitioner.

You are trying to develop a web site and you are expected to at least know basic HTML and CSS. JS would be handy, but is not initially required.

To understand what an attribute is, you must first know what an element is. For that, have a look here http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_elements.asp. From this, you can conclude that an element consists of an opening tag and a closing tag (with unfortunate exceptions). Within the element we can provide additional information such as rel, type, class, id, style, title just to name a few. The syntax is attribute="somevalue", e.g. rel="stylesheet". Each of these attributes must be surrounded by a space, as I have explained before. This is so that the browser can interpret the instructions properly. That is what I have been saying, yourattributesarenotseparatedbyspaces, oops, your attributes are not separated by spaces. Have a look here http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_attributes.asp

Actually, the main reason that the menu does not show properly in IE is the <html> tag at the start of your document. Remember that an element has a start tag and an ending tag. The <html> tag at the top of your document is an opening tag, yet there is no related closing tag. Not that it matters because the DOCTYPE declaration must be the first thing in your document as you can see here http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

My appologies, I'm sure your just as busy as I am. I have been under the gun to get this thing fixed and trying to juggle working 50 hour weeks. Not ones fault but mine. And sorry that I am not up to speed on this website stuff. I really would like to be, and would like to be as good at this stuff as you guys are here. I just have not been able to sqeeze in all the time needed. This is facinating stuff. Which is why I bought DW in the first place to try and build my own site. I know I didn't do too great of a job though obviiously. So again, sorry for my attitude here, just got frustrated, so thats why the other posts, sorry about those, my bad.

So during the night I thought about this html tag at the top of the doc. Here is what I am seeing and I am not sure how to get to it to fix it or remove it. In the screen-shots I have below here, for my Index page, you see there is not a html tag at the top.

But..for what you and I are seeing in the below screen shot when clicking on an actual product that I have linked up to the .php shopping cart software that I have, you will see the html tag at the top of any of those product pages when you right click them and view source.

So my question is, if I am on to something here is, where is that html tag hiding in my shopping cart .php folder of files? not really sure, I poked around but am still not finding it. I have all these .php folders and files but there is not one for each product like you see when you click on the product.